Storefront for Art and Architecture is proud to present VISIONS, a project that brought 5 photographers from around the world to construct a vision of a building.

 

The inaugural VISIONS project took as its subject of investigation the location of Storefront’s 30th Anniversary Spring Gala: 5 Beekman, known to many as Temple Court. 

 

Each photographer was asked to produce a series of prints that unveil and construct a different reality of the building.

 

These photographs were displayed at Storefront’s 30th Anniversary Gala on March 1st inside 5 Beekman.

 

 

About the building

5 Beekman Street, also know as Temple Court or the Beekman Palace, is  an 1882 construction. This building, constructed to replace the ashes of a burned building, was the first building in New York to be built with fire safety codes. The current state of the building, between sublime decay and solid ruin, will undergo complete restoration and transformation into a hotel. 

 

Construction started 5 days after Storefront’s Gala took place.

 

 

About the photographers

 

Brett Beyer  is an architectural and fine art photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. He received his degree in studio art from Bard College in 2000. His photographs were recently published in a five page photo essay by the New York Times Magazine. Some of his architectural clients include Cornell AAP, OMA, SOM, and Storefront for Art and Architecture. His group exhibitions include “Aerial Interior” at the International Photography Awards Best of Show exhibit at Smashbox Studios in Los Angeles, California. In 2012 he was included in the photography awards publication American Photography 28. He is currently working on an aerial photography project documenting the construction of the new World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.


Works in auction include:
5 Beekman , 2013

Woolworth/Atrium , 2013


Cameron Blaylock  is a photographer and artist living in Brooklyn, NY. In 2010, Cameron received a European Diploma in Fine Arts from Bauhaus-University in Weimar, Germany. For more visit: cameronblaylockphoto.com/ cameronblaylock.com/

Dolan Morgan lives and writes in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where he is an editor at The Atlas Review. His Pushcart Prize nominated fiction and poetry can be found in The Believer, The Collagist, Field, Pank, The Lifted Brow and Red Lightbulbs, among others. His work mythologizing airplane hijackings is featured in the online documentary project, Fortnight Journal, and his book experiment, Google Place Reviews, blindly donates all proceeds to the streets, wilderness and trash. For more visit: www.dolanmorgan.com.

 

Works in auction included:

Details of a magnificent business , 2013

Hold fast till I come , 2013

Companies which may become tenants, 2013

 

Naho Kubota  is a photographer whose work has been shown in exhibitions including her most recent show at Visual Arts Gallery in Chelsea, solo show at The Art Complex Center of Tokyo, Japan. She was the finalist of powerHouse Books New York Photo Festival and PDN 30 nominee, and the winner of American Photography 24.

She has been commissioned to collaborate with architectural design offices includes OMA, Droog amsterdam, So-il, Leong Leong, Hwkn, Inaba and organization includes New Museum, Columbia University and Storefront Art and Architecture. Her publication includes Domus, Pin- Up, Tar, Abitare, Frame, A+U, Volume and New York Times. Kubota was born in Japan and currently lives and works in New York. For more visit nahokubota.com.

 

Works in auction included:

5 beekman 1 , 2013

5 beekman 2 , 2013

5 beekman 3 , 2013

5 beekman 4 , 2013

5 beekman 5 , 2013

 

 

Janelle Lynch  has garnered international recognition over the last decade for her large-format photographs of the urban and rural landscape. Her work is currently on view at the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ and the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL. Other exhibitions include the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Museo Archivo de la Fotografía, Mexico City, Mexico; Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères, Hyères, France; Foto Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and the Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA. Lynch’s photographs are part of public collections including the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY; Fundación Vila Casas, Barcelona, Spain; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Salta, Argentina Her first monograph, Los Jardines de México, was published to critical acclaim by Radius Books in 2011 and a new monograph of her work Janelle Lynch: Barcelona is forthcoming by Radius in 2013. Lynch received an MFA in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1999. She teaches at the International Center of Photography in New York, is a 2012-2013 Fellow at The Writers’ Institute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY and a 2013 Artist-in-Residence at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY.

 

Works in auction included:

Table , 2013

Sofa , 2013

 

Benoit Pailley  lives and works New York and Paris. He is inspired by contemporary art and his passion is reflected in his elegant still life and installation photography. The objects become “works of art” in an environment that recreates gallery spaces. When conceptually appropriate, he builds installations that frame the objects in unique and stunning ways.

His first solo exhibition, Passport, was presented at the Flux Foundation in Geneva in March 2008. He is a regular contributor to Sleek and Double magazines and won German’s Lead Award in 2006 for best photographer in Still Life/Architecture category.

 

Works in auction included:

Silent Light N°1 , 2013

Silent Light N°2 , 2013

Silent Light N°3 , 2013

Silent Light N°4 , 2013

Silent Light N°5 , 2013